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Re: [freetds] db-lib DBNUMERIC structure

From: jklowden AT schemamania.org
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] db-lib DBNUMERIC structure
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:21:56 -0400

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:11:01PM +0200, LacaK wrote:
> typedef struct dbnumeric
> {
> char precision;
> char scale;
> unsigned char val[MAXNUMLEN];
> } DBNUMERIC;
>
> for retrieving exact numeric data.
>
> But I can not find, how to interpret/read "val" array to construct number.

Just to remind you, you could just bind the type to DBFLT4 or DBFLT8
(FLT4BIND or FLT8BIND). Or use dbconvert().

If you want the sausage-factory details, cf. tds_convert() source code.

--jkl

[freetds] db-lib DBNUMERIC structure, LacaK, 09/12/2011
- Re: [freetds] db-lib DBNUMERIC structure, jklowden, 09/12/2011
  - Re: [freetds] db-lib DBNUMERIC structure, LacaK, 09/13/2011